{"id":1285,"date":"2011-04-13T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2011-04-13T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T08:59:11","slug":"health-care-reforms-in-the-us-spawns-a-new-idea-3559","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/health-care-reforms-in-the-us-spawns-a-new-idea-3559\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Reforms In The US Spawns A New Idea-3559"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that while some people are actively trying to undermine President Obama\u2019s health care reforms, others are taking a more proactive approach.<\/p>\n

One such individual is a Colorado senator, Irene Aguilar who is proposing her own bill which will give Colorado citizens a chance to shop around for good health insurance<\/a>. Speaking with reporters she said: “The idea is to do self-sign-up health insurance through state-based, integrated health care systems and medical homes. So that\u00a0every person in the state would belong to an integrated medical system and medical home\u00a0that would track and ensure their health.”<\/p>\n

The bill she is proposing if passed would set up a commission to investigate funding of a Colorado Health Care Cooperative.<\/p>\n

Finding suitable health insurance provision is difficult in the USA. Ms Aguilar is hoping her new proposal will help 700,000 Colorado citizens get a better deal. However she does say that the new system will not stop anyone looking for coverage outside of the State.<\/p>\n

There are critics of the cooperative idea, but Ms Aguilar has said her bill is not for the creation of a cooperative, but to see if it is feasible and how it could be set up.<\/p>\n

She said: “The legislature would have the opportunity to say, \u2018This is a good idea; let\u2019s refer it to the ballot,’ or \u2018It’s not a good idea; we won’t refer it to the ballot,’\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: “Although if citizens wanted to do it anyway they could go for a citizens’ initiative.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that while some people are actively trying to undermine President Obama\u2019s health care reforms, others are taking a more proactive approach. One such individual is a Colorado senator, Irene Aguilar who is proposing her own bill which will give Colorado citizens a chance to shop around for good health insurance. Speaking with reporters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[191,151,838,839],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-insurance","tag-health-care-reform","tag-health-insurance-2","tag-shop-around","tag-usa-medical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888008809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}